{"id":54,"date":"2020-05-01T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/?p=54"},"modified":"2022-01-06T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:34:23","slug":"ult-inst-and-prox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/2020\/05\/01\/ult-inst-and-prox\/","title":{"rendered":"Ult, Inst, and Prox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimo, Instant, and Proximo:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Ultimo <\/em>means last month. Together with <em>instant <\/em>(the current month) and <em>proximo <\/em>(next month) it\u2019s an example of an outdated commercial language. <\/p><p>Few businessmen would today begin a letter \u201cWith reference to yours of the 14th ultimo\u201d, or \u201cyours of the 23rd instant\u201d, or \u201cPlease attend this office for interview on the 11th proximo\u201d, but it was once standard and taught in the best books.<\/p><cite> Ultimo | World Wide Words <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/weirdwords\/ww-ult2.htm\">http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/weirdwords\/ww-ult2.htm<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith reference to yours of the 14th ultimo\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wording","tag-words","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}